🔠 Alphabetical Order Sorter: Put Words in ABC Order

How to use it

1. 1. Add your list

   Type the words or names, one per line, or paste a column from a spreadsheet, a class list or a document. The sample list shows the options at work.

2. 2. Choose how to sort

   Pick A to Z or Z to A. Tick the boxes to remove duplicates, ignore capital letters, skip a leading article or put numbers in order of value.

3. 3. Press Sort the list

   The sorted list appears at once as a numbered list, using the alphabet rules of the page language, so accented letters and other scripts fall in their proper places.

4. 4. Copy or print

   Use Copy the list to paste the result into another document, or Print to get a clean sheet with just the sorted list on it.

Ideas for class and home

• ABC order practice

  Young children can write their spelling words in a scrambled list and then check their own ABC order against the sorted answer.

• Class lists and registers

  Paste in the names for a register, a seating plan or a set of labels and get them in order in a second, then print the sheet.

• Bibliographies and glossaries

  Sort sources or key terms for a project. Tick the option to skip a leading a, an or the so titles sit where readers expect them.

• Tidy up any list

  Clean a shopping list, a reading list or an event guest list by sorting it and removing the lines that appear twice.